However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.